28-30 The Close, Newcastle NE1, 0191-230 3720 A lovely, historical riverfront building, an inspiring chef (Kenny Atkinson), creativity and excellent produce aplenty: House of Tides is a real north-eastern star.
Nearer, in fact, to the B-movie easterns starring Maria Montez that Universal made in the 1940s than to Lawrence of Arabia, though no one actually says "It is written", which I rather missed.
It was a black-and-white year: A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery, Cartas da guerra – and United States of Love, shot by eastern European star DoP Oleg Mutu: not quite black-and-white, more like colour bleached within an inch of its life.
Scripted by Dirty, Pretty Things writer Steve Knight, Eastern Promises stars Viggo Mortensen and Naomi Watts in a tale of Russian gangsters in London.
Last year, "NFL This Morning" was a promising Sunday studio show on Fox Sports Net from 11 a.m. to noon, Eastern time, starring Chris Myers, Marv Levy, Jackie Slater and Chris Spielman.
A lacklustre book previously capsized the musicals of Sting's fellow North-Eastern pop stars Neil Tennant and Dave Stewart, in the form of Closer to Heaven and Ghost, and for the mooted West End crossing of The Last Ship, Sting might wish to cast his mind back to Message in a Bottle and start 'sending out an SOS'.
And in eastern Europe, only star performers like Poland have managed to return to the output levels achieved before 1989 - and even then at a cost of millions of unemployed, widespread poverty and social regression.
Home, of course, tends to be a moveable venue for many eastern European sports stars.
It became a mecca for Middle Eastern princes, Hollywood stars and the oldest families in Europe.
Sauer was named All-A.F.L. in 1967 and 1968, and he was selected to four eastern division all-star teams, from 1966-1969.
